It may not be a deliberate conspiracy, but gross negligence, or incompetence, or inefficiency is causing the United States to limit the access of our borders to musical artists
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They’ve spent most of their recording career capturing summery sounds on record, and Music Sounds Better With You is no exception
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The Soft Bulletin was a game changer for The Flaming Lips
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Duo Wye Oak sounds like at least a four to five piece, if not a whole flippin’ orchestra
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Listeners may have heard critics—sorry, crickets—and birds before, but when have they heard cows, along with clarinets and a marimba?
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Asobi Seksu paint with a richer but darker blend of colors on Fluorescence, title and packaging notwithstanding
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Listening to Well Spent Youth is like standing at the helm of an icebreaker with an infinite horizon of glaciers ahead—it’s beautiful to see from a distance, but difficult to navigate through.
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Listening to Moonlight Revival is like looking through an aural scrapbook of ’70s guitar rock: It’s enlightening to see which musical snapshots end up on which pages.
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The buzziest of Chicago’s many buzz bands, Smith Westerns have lived up to their much lauded promise on Dye It Blonde, their first proper release for the up-and-coming Fat Possum label after reissuing their HoZac debut full-length last year.
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Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will offers electric guitar, bass, keyboards and drums, but the parts are so complex and so richly layered they add up to more than the sum of their parts.
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Sonically it serves as a bridge from their youthful psychedelic impulses of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and the mature blues-rock of the Dark Side. However, Obscured By Clouds is superior to the former: It exhibits evolution from their ’60s playfulness and preferable to the latter in that it never dissolves into histrionic self-importance.
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The overall effect of Soviet League’s debut is extraordinary. It demands to be broadcast from speakers strapped to a hang glider whilst leaping from an alpine peak.
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